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OCELLUS LUCANUS

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 988 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OCELLUS LUCANUS , a Pythagorean philosopher, born in Lucania in the 5th century B.C., perhaps a pupil of
Pythagoras
  himself. Stobaeus (Ecl. Phys. i. 13) has preserved a fragment of his IIepi vtou (if he was really the author) in the Doric dialect, but the only one of his alleged works which is extant is a short treatise in four chapters in the Ionic dialect generally known as On the Nature of the Universe. Excerpts from this are given in Stobaeus (i. 20), but in Doric. It is certainly not authentic, and cannot be dated earlier than the 1st century B.C. It maintains the
doctrine
  that the universe is uncreated and eternal; that to its three
great
  divisions correspond the three kinds of beingsgods, men and daemons; and, finally, that the human race with all its institutions (the family,
marriage
  and the like) must be eternal. It
advocates
  an ascetic mode of
life
 , with a view to the perfect reproduction of the race and its training in all that is noble and beautiful.
Editions of the IIepi -ris rob' Iravn& c/tGvems, by A. F. Rudolph (18oI, with commentary), and by F. W. Mullach in Fragmenta philosophorum graecorum, i. (186o); see also E. Zeller, History of Greek Philosophy, i. (Eng. trans.), and J. de Heyden-Zielewicz in Breslauer philologische Abhandlungen, viii. 3 (1901). There is an English
translation
  (1831) by
Thomas
  Taylor, the Platonist.


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